Wireless multi-charger system and controlling method thereof

ABSTRACT

Disclosed are a wireless multi-charger system capable of saving the total charging time of a large number of wireless power transmission devices since one wireless multi-power transmission device includes a plurality of the wireless power transmission devices so that a large number of the wireless power transmission devices can be charged with electricity, and preventing the damage of the wireless power transmission devices and the wireless multi-power transmission device although foreign substances are put on charger blocks that are not charged. The wireless multi-charger system (A) according to the present invention includes an external body formed as a wireless charger case  11,  wherein the wireless charger case  11  has a wireless charger table  12  formed in an upper surface thereof, wherein the wireless charger table  12  has a plurality of charger blocks  14,  each of which includes a primary charging core  13,  wherein the full-bridge resonant converter  22  is present in a plural form and coupled respectively to a plurality of the charger blocks  14,  wherein a multi-gate driver module  23  is provided to transmit a converted power signal to each of a plurality of the full-bridge resonant converters  22  under the control of the central controller  21,  and wherein a reception signal processor module  24  coupled to a plurality of the charger blocks  14  to process a signal transmitted from the wireless power transmission device  30  and supply the processed signal to the central controller  21  is provided.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Notice: More than one reissue application has been filed for the reissueof U.S. Pat. No. 8,102,147; the reissue applications are applicationSer. No. 14/457,095 (the present application), Ser. Nos. 13/755,931, and15/197,171, the present application being a continuation reissueapplication of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/755,931, filed Jan.31, 2013, which is a reissue application of U.S. patent application Ser.No. 12/166,483, filed Jul. 2, 2008, now patented as U.S. Pat. No.8,102,147, issued on Jan. 24, 2012, which claims foreign priority ofKorean Application Nos. 10-2007-01237 49 filed Nov. 30, 2007,10-2007-0123751, filed Nov. 30, 2007 and 10-2007-0123752 filed Nov. 30,2007, all in the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a, and more particularly to a wirelesscharger system, and more particularly to a wireless multi-charger systemcapable of saving the total charging time of a large number of wirelesspower transmission devices since one wireless multi-power transmissiondevice includes a plurality of the wireless power transmission devicesso that a large number of the wireless power transmission devices can becharged with electricity, and preventing the damage of the wirelesspower transmission devices and the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice although foreign substances are put on charger blocks that arenot charged.

BACKGROUND ART

Generally, since portable wireless power transmission devices such asmobile phones, PDA, PMP, DMB terminals, MP3 or notebook computers arenot supplied with a conventional household power source since users usethe portable wireless power transmission devices while moving around.Therefore, it is necessary to install disposable batteries orrechargeable batteries in the portable wireless power transmissiondevices.

However, as a charger for charging electricity in a battery pack forthese wireless power transmission devices, there is a terminal supplysystem in which electricity is received from a conventional power sourceand a power source is supplied to a battery pack via power supply linesand a power supply terminal. However, where the battery pack isattached/detached to/from the charger when a power source is supplied tothis terminal supply system, an instant discharge phenomenon occurs dueto the different potential difference of terminals disposed in bothsides of the battery pack. Therefore, the battery pack has an increasingpossibility to start fires as foreign substances are accumulated in theterminals. Also, since the terminals are directly exposed to the air,the life span and performances of the charger and the battery pack maybe deteriorated, for example, due to the spontaneous discharge in thepresence of moisture or dusts.

In order to solve these problems regarding the terminal supply system,there has been developed a wireless charger. That is to say, thisconventional wireless charger is charged by a secondary coil of thebattery when a portable terminal block having a battery pack mountedinside is disposed upwardly in a primary coil of wireless charger. Thatis to say, an induced electromotive force is generated in the secondarycoil by the magnetic field formed in the primary coil, and electricityinduced from the induced electromotive force is charged in the secondarycoil.

However, these conventional wireless chargers have no practical usesince it is possible only to supply a power to a portable terminalblock, but they have difficulty in use for other applications.

Furthermore, the wireless charger may be damaged due to the increasedloss of power in the primary coil with the changes in the magnetic fieldwhen metals are disposed adjacent to the magnetic field generated in theprimary coil.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

Accordingly, the present invention is designed to solve the aboveproblems, and therefore it is an object of the present invention toprovide a wireless multi-charger system capable of saving the totalcharging time of a large number of wireless power transmission devicessince one wireless multi-power transmission device includes a pluralityof the wireless power transmission devices so that a large number of thewireless power transmission devices can be charged with electricity.

Also, it is another object of the present invention to provide awireless multi-charger system capable of preventing the damage of thewireless power transmission devices and the wireless multi-powertransmission device by stopping the power transmission when foreignsubstances such as metals are put on charger blocks that are notcharged.

Furthermore, it is still another object of the present invention toprovide a wireless multi-charger system capable of improving thecharging efficiency by stably performing a continuous charging operationalthough the current wireless power transmission device that is oncharge is touched to charge a new wireless power transmission device.

Technical Solution

In order to accomplish the above object, one embodiment of the presentinvention provides a wireless multi-charger system (A) including awireless multi-power transmission device 10 for transmitting a powersignal to a wireless power transmission device 30 in a wireless manner,wherein the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 include awireless charger case 11 formed as an external body, the wirelesscharger case 11 having a full-bridge resonant converter 22 and a centralcontroller 21 mounted thereinside to transmit a power signal to thewireless power transmission device 30 in a wireless manner, wherein thewireless charger case 11 has a wireless charger table 12 formed in anupper surface thereof, wherein the wireless charger table 12 has aplurality of charger blocks 14, each of which includes a primarycharging core 13, wherein the full-bridge resonant converter 22 ispresent in a plural form and coupled respectively to a plurality of thecharger blocks 14, wherein a multi-gate driver module 23 is provided totransmit a converted power signal to each of a plurality of thefull-bridge resonant converters 22 under the control of the centralcontroller 21, and wherein a reception signal processor module 24coupled to a plurality of the charger blocks 14 to process a signaltransmitted from the wireless power transmission device 30 and supplythe processed signal to the central controller 21 is provided.

In this case, the wireless charger case 11 may have a power-on/offswitch 151; an input panel 152 for inputting a signal; and a LCD panel153 and a charging LED 154 for displaying a charging state of thewireless charger table 12 and a plurality of the charger blocks 14 andthe wireless power transmission device 30, all of which are formed inthe front thereof, and may include a power supply unit 25 formedthereinside.

Also, the central controller 21 may includes a power supply block 211coupled to the power supply unit 25 to supply a power source of thewireless multi-power transmission device 10; a signal output block 212for outputting a display signal into the LCD panel 153 and the chargingLED 154; a gate output signal processor block 213 coupled to themulti-gate driver module 23 to transmit a power signal transmitted fromthe primary charging core 13; a received signal processor block 214coupled to one side of the primary charging core 13 for processing asignal transmitted from the reception signal processor module 24 forprocessing a signal transmitted from the wireless power transmissiondevice 30; and a main controller 210 for controlling the power supplyblock 211, the signal output block 212, the gate output signal processorblock 213 and the received signal processor block 214.

In addition, the central controller 21 may control the request for datainformation on charging capacity to the wireless device 30, receive dataof the information on charging capacity and data of the power signalvoltage transmitted from the wireless device 30 to determine voltagedata of the transmitted power signal, perform an arithmetic operation onthe frequency of the power signal to compensate for a transmitted powerrelative to the voltage data of the power signal of the determinedwireless device 30, and control the transmission of the power signal asthe compensated frequency to transmit a compensated power signal to thewireless device 30.

Also, the wireless power transmission device 30 may include a secondarycharging core 32 for transmitting an induced electric current from themagnetic field to correspond to the primary charging core 13 of thewireless multi-power transmission device 10; a rectifier block 33coupled to the secondary charging core 32 to rectify the inducedelectric current; a smoothing filter block 34 coupled to the rectifierblock 33 to filter an electric current; a charger IC block 36 coupled tothe smoothing filter block 34 to charge a power source in the batterycell 35; a protection circuit module block 37 provided between thecharger IC block 36 and the battery cell 35 to detect an electriccurrent charged in the battery cell 35 and transmit information on acharging state of the battery cell 35 to the power receiver controller39; a positive-voltage regulator block 38 provided to supply a powersource to the power receiver controller 39; and a power receivercontroller 39 for controlling the rectifier block 33, the smoothingfilter block 34, the charger IC block 36, the protection circuit moduleblock 37 and the positive-voltage regulator block 38.

In addition, the power receiver controller 39 may include a power signalprocessor block 393 coupled to the smoothing Filter block 34 to processa transmission signal for the data information on the power signalreceived from the wireless power transmission device 10; a charge signalprocessor block 394 coupled to the charger IC block 36 and theprotection circuit module block 37 to process a transmission signal forthe data information on the charging capacity and charging state of thebattery cell 35; a signal processor block 392 for processing informationon the charging capacity and data information on the native ID that aretransmitted to the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 under thecontrol of the device controller 390; a device memory unit 391 forstoring data information on the native ID, temporally storing the datainformation of the charging capacity and the charging state transmittedfrom the protection circuit module block 37 and the charger IC block 36and storing the data transmitted from the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10; and a device controller 390.

Additionally, the main controller 210 of the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 may control the transmission of a native codesignal for respective charger blocks 14 in addition to the charge powersignal to the charger blocks that are on charge, the device controller390 may analyze the native code signal for the corresponding chargerblock 14 transmitted from the wireless multi-power transmission device10, and the device memory unit 391 stores a data value of the nativecode signal for the corresponding charger block 14 transmitted from thedevice controller 390.

Furthermore, the device controller 390 may control the transmission of adata value to the wireless multi-power transmission device 10, the datavalue including a voltage value of the power signal received for thereceived request signal from the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10.

In order to accomplish the above object, another embodiment of thepresent invention provides a method for controlling a wirelessmulti-charger system (A) as defined in any one of claims 1 to 4,including:

1) transmitting a power signal via the primary charging core 13 fromwireless multi-power transmission device 10 of the wirelessmulti-charger system (A) in every cycle, the power signal including acall signal for calling a native ID value of the wireless powertransmission device 30, and waiting for the receipt of a response signalfor the power signal (S01);

2) determining the presence of an object by checking a detecteddetection signal according to the load modulation in a primary chargingcore 13 of one of the charger blocks 14 and determining whether thedetected detection signal is a normal signal (S02);

3) determining whether a native ID signal of the wireless powertransmission device 30 is received by analyzing the detected receptionsignal (S03);

4) transmitting a fully charged transmission power from the primarycharging core 13 of the corresponding charger block 14 via themulti-gate driver module 23 when the received native ID signal isdetermined to be a native ID transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device 30 (S04);

5) requesting information on the charging state to the wireless powertransmission device 30 and adjusting a charging level according to thecharging information of the wireless power transmission device 30 (S05);

6) displaying a fully charged state in an LCD panel 153 or a chargingLED 154 corresponding to the corresponding charger block 14 and stoppinga charging operation when the information on the fully charged state isreceived from the wireless power transmission device 30 (S06).

In this case, the object detection step (S02) may include: converting aplurality of the charger blocks 14 into a foreign substance detectionmode when a detection signal detected through the corresponding primarycharging core 13 and the reception signal processor module 24 accordingto the load modulation generated by objects is not a normal signal,displays a foreign substance error in the LCD panel 153 or charging LED154 when the detected foreign substance is a metal or electronicequipment, and stops a charging operation on the corresponding chargerblock 14 (S021).

Also, the charging control step (S05) may include:

requesting data information on the charging capacity to the wirelesspower transmission device 30;

receiving data information on the charging capacity and the voltage dataof the power signal transmitted from the wireless power transmissiondevice 30;

determining the voltage data of the power signal transmitted from thewireless power transmission device 30;

performing an arithmetic operation on a frequency of the power signal tocompensate for the transmitted power for the voltage data of the powersignal transmitted from the wireless power transmission device 30;

transmitting a power signal as a compensated frequency to transmit acompensated power signal to the wireless power transmission device 30.

Advantageous Effects

As described above, the wireless multi-charger system according to thepresent invention may be useful to save the total charging time of alarge number of wireless power transmission devices since one wirelessmulti-power transmission device includes a plurality of the wirelesspower transmission devices so that a large number of the wireless powertransmission devices can be charged with electricity.

Also, the wireless multi-charger system according to the presentinvention may be useful to prevent the damage of the wireless powertransmission devices and the wireless multi-power transmission device bystopping the power transmission in the corresponding charger block whenforeign substances are put on charger blocks that are not charged.

Furthermore, the wireless multi-charger system according to the presentinvention may be useful to improve the charging efficiency by stablyperforming a continuous charging operation although the current wirelesspower transmission device that is on charge is touched to charge a newwireless power transmission device.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a wireless multi-power transmissiondevice of a wireless multi-charger system according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 is a control block view showing the wireless multi-powertransmission device of the wireless multi-charger system according tothe present invention.

FIG. 3 is block view showing the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice of the wireless multi-charger system according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 4 is a control flowchart showing the wireless multi-powertransmission device of the wireless multi-charger system according tothe present invention.

FIG. 5 is a control flowchart showing the wireless multi-powertransmission device of the wireless multi-charger system according tothe present invention.

FIG. 6 is a control block view showing a method for controlling awireless multi-charger system according to the present invention.

FIGS. 7 to 12 are graphic diagrams illustrating the efficiencies to thepower control in the wireless multi-charger system according to thepresent invention.

FIG. 13 is configuration view showing a wireless power transmissiondevice according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is configuration view showing a central controller of thewireless power transmission device according to one exemplary embodimentof the present invention.

FIGS. 15 and 16 are an exploded perspective view and a sidecross-sectional view showing the wireless power transmission deviceaccording to the present invention, respectively.

FIG. 17 is a graphic diagram illustrating the efficiencies of thewireless power transmission device according to the present invention inthe repeated charging/discharging experiments.

FIG. 18 is a circuit view showing a wireless device control module ofthe wireless power transmission device according to one exemplaryembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a circuit view showing a rectifier member of the wirelesspower transmission device according to one exemplary embodiment of thepresent invention.

BEST MODE

Hereinafter, preferred embodiment of the present invention will bedescribed in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a wireless multi-power transmissiondevice of a wireless multi-charger system according to the presentinvention, FIG. 2 is a control block view showing the wirelessmulti-power transmission device of the wireless multi-charger systemaccording to the present invention, FIG. 3 is block view showing thewireless multi-power transmission device of the wireless multi-chargersystem according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a control flowchartshowing the wireless multi-power transmission device of the wirelessmulti-charger system according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is acontrol flowchart showing the wireless multi-power transmission deviceof the wireless multi-charger system according to the present invention,and FIG. 6 is a control block view showing a method for controlling awireless multi-charger system according to the present invention.

FIGS. 7 to 12 are graphic diagrams illustrating the efficiencies to thepower control in the wireless multi-charger system according to thepresent invention. FIGS. 7 to 12 shows the power control when a wirelesspower transmission device 30 moves relative to the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10.

FIG. 13 is configuration view showing a wireless power transmissiondevice according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention,and FIG. 14 is configuration view showing a central controller of thewireless power transmission device according to one exemplary embodimentof the present invention.

FIGS. 15 and 16 are an exploded perspective view and a sidecross-sectional view showing the wireless power transmission deviceaccording to the present invention, respectively, FIG. 17 is a graphicdiagram illustrating the efficiencies of the wireless power transmissiondevice according to the present invention in the repeatedcharging/discharging experiments, FIG. 18 is a circuit view showing awireless device control module of the wireless power transmission deviceaccording to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.19 is a circuit view showing a rectifier member of the wireless powertransmission device according to one exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention.

That is to say, the wireless multi-charger system (A) according to thepresent invention includes a wireless multi-power transmission device 10for transmitting a power signal to a wireless power transmission device30 in a wireless manner, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 19.

As shown above in FIG. 1, the wireless multi-power transmission device10 has a wireless charger case 11 formed as an external body. In thiscase, a full-bridge resonant converter 22 and a central controller 21for transmitting a power signal to the wireless power transmissiondevice 30 in a wireless manner are mounted inside the wireless chargercase 11.

Also, a wireless charger table 12 is provided in an upper surface of thewireless charger case 11. In this case, a plurality of charger blocks 14each having a primary charging core 13 are formed in the wirelesscharger table 12.

Therefore, the full-bridge resonant converter 22 is provided in a pluralform and coupled respectively to a plurality of the charger blocks 14.And, a multi-gate driver module 23 is provided to transmit a convertedpower signal to each of a plurality of the full-bridge resonantconverters 22 under the control of the central controller 21. Also,provided is a reception signal processor module 24 coupled to aplurality of the charger blocks 14 to process a signal transmitted fromthe wireless power transmission device 30 and supply the processedsignal to the central controller 21.

Also, the wireless charger case 11 has a power-on/off switch 151; aninput panel 152 for inputting a signal; and a LCD panel 153 and acharging LED 154 for displaying a charging state of the wireless chargertable 12 and a plurality of the charger blocks 14 and the wireless powertransmission device 30, all of which are formed in the front thereof,and includes a power supply unit 25 formed thereinside.

Therefore, the portable wireless power transmission device 30 such asmobile phones, PDA, PMP, DMB terminals, MP3 or notebook computers is puton a plurality of charger blocks 14 formed on the wireless charger case11, as shown in FIG. 1. Therefore, the power transmission device 10detects the wireless power transmission device 30 and performs acharging operation when the portable wireless power transmission device30 is put on a plurality of charger blocks 14.

Also, referring to the configuration of the central controller 21 forcontrolling the charging operation in the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10, the central controller 21 includes a powersupply block 211 coupled to the power supply unit 25 to supply a powersource of the wireless multi-power transmission device 10; a signaloutput block 212 for outputting a display signal into the LCD panel 153and the charging LED 154; a gate output signal processor block 213coupled to the multi-gate driver module 23 to transmit a power signaltransmitted from the primary charging core 13; a received signalprocessor block 214 coupled to one side of the primary charging core 13for processing a signal transmitted from the reception signal processormodule 24 for processing a signal transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device 30; and a main controller 210 for controlling thepower supply block 211, the signal output block 212, the gate outputsignal processor block 213 and the received signal processor block 214,as shown in FIG. 2.

In addition, referring to the major configuration of the wireless powertransmission device 30 that is charged while being put on a plurality ofthe charger blocks 14 formed in the wireless charger case 11 of thewireless multi-power transmission device 10, the wireless powertransmission device 30 includes a secondary charging core 32 fortransmitting an induced electric current to correspond to the primarycharging core 13 of the wireless multi-power transmission device 10; arectifier block 33 coupled to the secondary charging core 32 to rectifythe induced electric current; a smoothing filter block 34 coupled to therectifier block 33 to filter an electric current; a charger IC block 36coupled to the smoothing filter block 34 to charge a power source in thebattery cell 35; a protection circuit module block 37 (PCM) providedbetween the charger IC block 36 and the battery cell 35 to detect anelectric current charged in the battery cell 35 and transmit informationon a charging state of the battery cell 35 to the power receivercontroller 39, and detecting overvoltage, under voltage, electriccurrent and shortcut of a battery; a positive-voltage regulator block 38provided to supply a power source to the power receiver controller 39;and a power receiver controller 39 for controlling the rectifier block33, the smoothing filter block 34, the charger IC block 36, theprotection circuit module block 37 and the positive-voltage regulatorblock 38 and monitoring the ID generation and the charging state, asshown in FIG. 3.

Also, the power receiver controller 39 includes a power signal processorblock 393 coupled to the smoothing filter block 34 to process atransmission signal for the data information on the power signalreceived from the wireless power transmission device 10; a charge signalprocessor block 394 coupled to the charger IC block 36 and theprotection circuit block 37 to process a transmission signal for thedata information on the charging capacity and charging state of thebattery cell 35; a signal processor block 392 for processing informationon the charging capacity and data information on the native ID that aretransmitted to the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 under thecontrol of the device controller 390; a device memory unit 391 forstoring data information on the native ID, temporally storing the datainformation of the charging capacity and the charging state transmittedfrom the protection circuit block 37 and the charger IC block 36 andstoring the data transmitted from the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10; and a device controller 390.

The wireless multi-charger system (A) according to the presentinvention, as configured thus, has an advantage that several wirelesspower transmission devices 30 may be charged only one time since thewireless charger table 12 formed on the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 is formed of a plurality of the charger blocks14.

The charging operation of the wireless multi-charger system (A)according to the present invention is described in more detail, asfollows.

1) First, a standby mode step (S01) in which a power signal istransmitted in every cycle via gate signal paths 234 of the gate outputsignal processor block 213—the multi-gate driver module 23—thefull-bridge resonant converter 22—the corresponding primary chargingcores 13 of respective charger blocks 14 is performed under the controlof the central controller 21 in the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10 of the wireless multi-charger system (A). As described above,in the standby mode step (S01), a power signal is transmitted via theprimary charging core 13 in every cycle, the power signal including acall signal for calling a native ID value of the wireless powertransmission device 30, and waiting for the receipt of a response signalfor the power signal.

2) Then, while a call signal for a native ID value is transmitted andthe receipt of a response signal for the call signal is waited for inthe standby mode step (S01), an object detection step (S02) of receivinga detection signal according to the load modulation is performed in theprimary charging core 13 of one of the charger blocks 14. When anyobject is detected as described above, the portable wireless powertransmission devices 30, such as mobile phones, PDA, PMP, DMB terminals,MP3 or notebook computers, that may be charged in a wireless manner; andconventional electronic equipments that may not be charged in a wirelessmanner may be put on the charger blocks 14. Therefore, the wirelessmulti-power transmission device 10 receives a signal according to theload modulation as a detection signal, the load modulation beinggenerated by any of the objects as listed above, and simultaneouslydetermines the presence of the object by determining whether the objectsare put on the top of the charger block 14.

When particular problems do not occur by the use of the non-mentalmaterials and the load modulation caused by the movement of the objects,the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 may be converted intothe standby mode step (S01). However, the heat generation and erroneousoperations of equipment may occur due to the charging operation in thecase of the electronic equipment that may not be charged in a wirelessmanner, not in the case of the wireless power transmission device 30that may be charged in a wireless manner.

Therefore, the object detection step (S02) includes: detecting theseforeign substances (parasitic metal detection (PMD)) (S021). That is tosay, the foreign substance detection step (S021) includes: determiningwhether a detection signal is not a normal signal, the detection signalbeing detected through the corresponding primary charging core 13 andthe reception signal processor module 24 according to the loadmodulation generated by objects in a plurality of the charger blocks 14.The signal transmitted under the control of the central controller 21 isdetermined whether it is an abnormal signal whose signal determinationis impossible by comparing the reception signal according to the loadmodulation. Therefore, the corresponding charger block 14 is convertedinto a foreign substance detection mode when the corresponding chargerblock 14 detects a foreign substance, and displays a foreign substanceerror in the LCD panel 153 or the charging LED 154 when the detectedforeign substances is a metal or electronic equipment, and operates tostop a charging operation of the corresponding charger block 14(parasitic metal detection (PMD) error).

3) However, a native ID determination step (S03) of analyzing anddetermining the detected signal according to the load modulation whenthe detected reception signal is determined to be data for native ID ofthe wireless power transmission device 30 that may be charged in awireless manner. In the standby mode step (S01), a signal for searchingthe wireless power transmission device 30 is transmitted together with arequest signal for requesting a data value of the native ID of thewireless power transmission device 30. Therefore, an induced electriccurrent generated by the secondary charging core 32 is rectified throughthe rectifier block 33 in the wireless power transmission device 30, andthen filtered through the smoothing Filter block 34. During thisprocess, information on the received native ID request is transmitted tothe device controller 390 of the power receiver controller 39, andtherefore a native ID data value of the corresponding wireless powertransmission device 30, which is stored in the device memory unit 391,is transmitted to the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 viathe signal processor block 392. Therefore, in the case of the native IDdetermination step (S03), the receive reception signal according to theload modulation is processed in the reception signal processor module 24coupled to the primary charging core 13 of the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10, and then transmitted to the main controller 210of the central controller 21 via the received signal processor block214. Then, the main controller 210 determines whether the received datais a normal native ID data of the wireless power transmission device 30,and then determines whether the wireless power transmission device 30 isa normal device that can be charged in a wireless manner by determiningwhether the received data is a native ID data transmitted from thenormal wireless power transmission device 30.

4) Subsequently, when the received data is proven to be a native IDtransmitted from the wireless power transmission device 30, a fullycharged power transmission step (S04) of transmitting a fully chargedtransmission power from the primary charging core 13 of thecorresponding charger block 14 is performed in the multi-gate drivermodule 23.

Referring to the fully charged power transmission step (S04) in thewireless multi-power transmission device 10, when the main controller210 of the central controller 21 determines that the normal wirelesspower transmission device 30 is put on the charger block 14 of the maincontroller 210, the main controller 210 transmits a control signal withthe transmission of the power signal via the gate output signalprocessor block 213 and the gate signal path 234.

Since the control signal is transmitted to the multi-gate driver module23, and then transmitted with the transmission of the power signal, apower signal is transmitted to the primary charging core 13 of thecorresponding charger block 14 via the corresponding full-bridgeresonant converter 22, and then the power signal is transmitted to thewireless power transmission device 30 due to the generation of aninduced magnetic field.

During a series of these processes, configurations of the gate signalpath 234 and the multi-gate driver module 23 will be described in moredetail, as follows.

First, the gate signal path 234 may be composed of a plurality of signalpaths corresponding respectively to the respective charger blocks 14.Therefore, a control signal of the main controller 210 is transmitted tothe multi-gate driver module 23 via the respective corresponding signalpaths of the gate signal paths 234. In this case, the multi-gate drivermodule 23 may include a gate signal converter unit 232 for processing agate signal; an output driver 233 for transmitting the processed signalto the corresponding full-bridge resonant converter 22; and a gatecontroller 231.

Therefore, the gate signal path 234 is composed of a plurality of signalpaths corresponding to the respective charger blocks 14. In this case,the main controller 210 is configured to transmit respective controlsignals to the charger block 14 respectively via the gate output signalprocessor block 213 including a plurality of output signal processormembers, and therefore the gate signal converter unit 232 of themulti-gate driver module 23 may be composed of a plurality of convertermembers corresponding respectively to the charger blocks 14.

And, the gate controller 231 is configured to control the signaltransmission/reception and signal processing in the multi-gate drivermodule 23. According to this exemplary embodiment, the control signaltransmitted from the main controller 210 may be transmitted to memberscorresponding respectively to the charger blocks 14, and therefore apower signal is transmitted to stably transmit an induced magneticfield. As a result, this configuration is suitable to a small wirelessmulti-power transmission device 10.

Also, according to another exemplary embodiment of the multi-gate drivermodule 23 and the gate signal paths 234, the gate signal path 234 may beconfigured as a single path, and the gate signal converter unit 232 ofthe multi-gate driver module 23 may also be configured as a singleconverter member (or a plurality of converter member).

In this regard, the main controller 210 transmits a control signal tothe multi-gate driver module 23. In this case, the control signal istransmitted together with a code signal for the corresponding chargerblock 14 prior to transmission of a conversion signal, and the gatecontroller 231 of the multi-gate driver module 23 receiving the controlsignal determines a signal for which charger block 14 the control signaltransmitted from the main controller 210 is, and the converted powersignal may be transmitted to the full-bridge resonant converter 22 as acode signal for the corresponding charger block 14.

Therefore, it is possible to simplify the configuration of the maincontroller 210 and the multi-gate driver module 23, and thisconfiguration may be suitable to manufacture the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 and the wireless power transmission device 30 ina large scale.

5) Then, a charging control step (S05) is performed by requestinginformation on a charging state to the wireless power transmissiondevice 30 and controlling a charging level according to the receivedcharging information of the wireless power transmission device 30.

Then, the wireless power transmission device 30 controls the charger ICblock 36 and the protection circuit module block 37 to charge a powersource into the battery cell 35, the power source being transmitted viathe rectifier block 33 and the smoothing filter block 34 under thecontrol of the device controller 390 after the fully charged powertransmission step (S04).

For this charging operation, the device controller 390 receivesinformation on a charging state of the battery cell 35 through thecharger IC block 36 and the protection circuit module block 37, andtemporally stores the information on a charging state in the devicememory unit 391. Then, when the battery cell 35 is in a fully chargedstate, the charging operation is stopped by controlling the charger ICblock 36. Also, information on the fully charged state is generated inthe secondary charging core 32 through the signal processor block 392.Also, when a voltage of the charged battery cell 35 is less than apredetermined reference voltage, the battery cell 35 is converted againinto a charging state to perform another charging operation. However,the battery cell 35 is proven to be in a fully charged state, thecharging of the battery cell 35 is stopped (No Operation).

Therefore, the main controller 210 of the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 requests information on the charging levels inevery step of the wireless power transmission device 30 in the chargingcontrol step (S05). In this case, the device controller 390 of thewireless power transmission device 30 transmits data of the informationon the charging state of the battery cell 35 using a load modulationmethod.

As described above, the information on the charging state transmittedfrom the wireless power transmission device 30 is transmitted to themain controller 210 coupled to the received signal processor block 214through the reception signal processor module 24. The reception signalprocessor module 24 includes a plurality of reception signal input units243 for receiving signals detected in the respective charger blocks 14through the load modulation; a reception signal processor unit 242 forconverting a detection signal according to the load modulation of eachof the charger blocks 14; and a reception signal controller 241 forcontrolling an operation of the reception signal processor module 24.

Therefore, the transmission information of the wireless powertransmission device 30 received through the load modulation is convertedinto signals in the reception signal processor module 24, depending onthe respective charger blocks 14, and the converted signals aretransmitted to the main controller 210 through the received signalprocessor blocks 214.

The reception signal processor module 24 may generally have a pluralityof amplifiers, LPF, OR logic circuits and the like, all of which aremounted thereinside. In particular, in the case of the configuration ofthe reception signal processor unit 242 and the reception signal path244 of the reception signal processor module 24, the reception signalprocessor unit 242 and the reception signal path 244 may be configuredas a single member or as a plurality of members so as to generate anative code each of the corresponding charger blocks 14, as describedabove in the exemplary embodiment of the multi-gate driver module 23.

That is to say, when signals according to the load modulation aretransmitted to each of the charger block 14s, a plurality of thereception signal processor units 242 according to this exemplaryembodiment process their own signals, and transmit the processes signalsto the main controller 210 via the respective reception signal paths244. Therefore, signals generated in the corresponding charger blocks 14are accurately transmitted to the main controller 210 through theseparate signal processing and via the paths, and processed in the maincontroller 210, and therefore it is possible to operate a system stably.Also, this system may suitably apply to small devices as in theabove-mentioned multi-gate driver module 23.

In addition, for the exemplary embodiment in which each of the receptionsignal processor unit 242 and the reception signal paths 244 isconfigured as a single member, the reception signal processor unit 242of the multi-gate driver module 23 determines a reception signal forwhich charger block 14 the received signal according to the loadmodulation is under the control of the reception signal controller 241,and the processed reception signal is divided into categories togetherwith the code signal for the corresponding charger blocks 14 when theprocessed reception signal is transmitted via the received signalprocessor block 214. Then, the main controller 210 receives thereception signals for the respective charger blocks 14, dividesrespective signals into categories and processes the signals bycategory. Therefore, the configuration of single members may be used asthe simplified configuration of the entire members.

Accordingly, the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 requestsdata information on a charging level to the wireless power transmissiondevice 30 that is charged in the corresponding charger block 14 throughthe multi-gate driver module 23 and the primary charging core 13,depending on the corresponding charger block 14. As a result, thecorresponding wireless power transmission device 30 transmits the datainformation on a charging level of the battery cell 35 that is receivedvia the charger IC block 36 and the protection circuit module block 37.

Also, the information is transmitted to the main controller 210 via theprimary charging core 13 of the respective charger block 14 and thereception signal processor module 24.

Then, the main controller 210 of the central controller 21 displaysinformation on a charging level or state in the form of letters orfigures on the LCD panel 153 through the signal output block 212,depending on the data of the charging level in the correspondingwireless power transmission device 30, and controls the charging LED 154to display that the corresponding charger block 14 is on charge. Then,the LCD panel 153 displays a charging state along with the number of thecorresponding charger block 14. Also, the LCD panel 153 displays thateach of the respective charger blocks 14 turns on the charging LED 154.For example, the charging operation of the battery cell 35 is stoppedwhen a lamp of the charging LED 154 is turned off, the battery cell 35is on charge when the lamp is flickered, a green light is turned on thebattery cell 35 is fully charged, and a red light is turned on whenerrors such as a foreign substance error, a native ID error are caused.As described above, the charging operation of the battery cell 35 may beperformed in various manners.

During a series of these charging processes, when the wireless powertransmission device 30 moves from the corresponding charger block 14 ofthe wireless charger table 12, a charging efficiency in the wirelesspower transmission device 30 may be maximized by converting a powersignal transmitted from the corresponding charger block 14 of thewireless multi-power transmission device 10.

6) Finally, when the information on the fully charged state is receivedfrom the wireless power transmission device 30, the fully charged stateis displayed in the LCD panel 153 or the charging LED 154 correspondingto the respective charger block 14, and the fully charged state step(S06) of stopping the charging operation is performed to stop thecharging operation for the corresponding charger block 14.

When a user removes the fully charged wireless power transmission device30 from the charger block 14 whose charging operation is stopped, andinputs an operation start signal again, the charger blocks 14 ispreferably in a standby mode.

Also, when a foreign substance error or an ID error is caused in theforeign substance detection step of detecting foreign substances, theerror is displayed in the corresponding charger block 14, and thecharging operation of the corresponding charger block 14 is then stoppedto ensure the stability of the wireless multi-power transmission device10, the wireless power transmission device 30 or other metal materials,and the electronic equipment. Therefore, when the charging operation ofthe corresponding charger block 14 is stopped due to the generation ofthe errors, the charger block 14 is in a standby mode until a re-startsignal is inputted into the charger block 14 by a user.

Of course, a pulse signal is periodically transmitted to the chargerblocks 14 when there is the error or the fully charged state. In thiscase, the charger blocks 14 are normally converted into a standby modewhen the charger blocks 14 senses that the error is solved, for example,by removing the fully charged wireless power transmission device 30 orforeign substances using the signal according to the load modulation.

Also, the main controller 210 of the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10 may be configured to control the charger block that is oncharge to transmit a native code signals for the respective chargerblocks 14 together with the charge power signal. Therefore, the devicecontroller 390 may be configured to analyze the native code signals forthe corresponding charger blocks 14 that are transmitted from thewireless multi-power transmission device 10, and the device memory unit391 may be configured to store a data value of the native code signalsfor the corresponding charger blocks 14 that are transmitted from thedevice controller 390.

In addition, the device controller 390 is configured to control the datavalue for the voltage value of the power signal to be transmitted to thewireless multi-power transmission device 10, the voltage value of thepower signal being received for the request signal received from thewireless multi-power transmission device 10.

Also, a power source for USB ports of computers, and a power sourceinputted from an AC adapter, a cigar Jack and the like may be suppliedto the power supply unit 25.

Also, a temperature detector unit 26 is provided to detect temperatureof the corresponding charger block 14 or the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 during the charging procedure. Therefore, anoperation of the corresponding charger block 14 may be stopped when thecorresponding charger block 14 is heated to the hot temperature detectedin the temperature detector unit 26, and an operation of the entiresystem may be stopped when the entire wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10 is heated to the hot temperature.

In addition, a current detection member may be provided in each of thepower supply unit 25, the multi-gate driver module 23, the respectivefull-bridge resonant converters 22 or the reception signal processormodules 24 to monitor a flow of electric current. In this case, when thecorresponding members becomes an over current and overvoltage state bymeans of the current detection member, operations of the correspondingmember and its related charger block 14 are stopped, or an operation ofthe system is stopped, and they transmit a signal for the error.

Then, FIG. 13 is a configuration view showing a wireless multi-powertransmission device according to one exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention. Referring to the configuration of the wireless multi-powertransmission device according to one exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention, the wireless power transmitter includes a control logic forIC communication with a receptor module installed inside the wirelesspower transmission device that is a wireless device; and a pre-driverfor driving a full-bridge resonance-type converter to generate aninduced electromotive force using LC resonance. And, an SPI controllerfor communication with EEPROM for storing various parameters may beinstalled inside the wireless power transmitter. Also, a clock inputport for operation of the system, an LCD backlight for displaying acharging state of the wireless device, and an input/output port forcontrolling ports of the LCD may be installed inside the wireless powertransmitter. Furthermore, the wireless power transmitter may include anLED input/output port for checking the operation of the wireless device,VCC and GND input ports for DC power source, and a shout-down port fordetecting temperature of a transmission coil and stopping the operationof the wireless device when an inside comparator determines thetemperature of the transmission coil to be more than a predeterminedtemperature.

Also, FIG. 14 is a configuration view showing a central controller ofthe wireless multi-power transmission device according to one exemplaryembodiment of the present invention. Here, it is shown that the centralcontroller may be configured with a single mold. This single chip mayhave a function to enable wireless power transmission, and the FETPre-driver has an output function, and the analog unit has a comparatorinstalled thereinside, the comparator having an ID detection function,and may include a power-on reset, 5V, VCC-5V, a 3.3V positive-voltageregulator (including a shut-down function in shortcut), and an inputport for detecting temperature of the transmission/reception coiltemperature. Also, the digital unit may include an SPI interface forserial communication, a logic for controlling wireless powertransmission, and an amplifier for an external system clock oscillatoramplifier. Also, a plurality of input/output ports may be installedinside the central controller to drive LED, backlight, LCD, etc.

Also, FIG. 18 is a circuit view showing a wireless device control moduleof the wireless power transmission device according to one exemplaryembodiment of the present invention. Here, it is shown that members forcontrolling the wireless power transmission device 30 may be configuredwith a single mold. That is to say, the wireless device control modulehas a function to communicate with the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10 in a wireless manner, and may include members such as apre-driver and FET for ID generation, a comparator for analog input, apower-on reset as an analog unit, a clock oscillating circuit, 64-bitinterior/exterior ID and a control logic. When a voltage of a battery isdetected by this mold, the wireless device control module may have afunction to be converted into a recharge mode, a function to feed back avalue of the fully charged state of the charger IC, a function to detecta phase to recognize an encryption code, etc. In addition to thefunctions, the wireless device control module may be designed to have anoutput port for controlling an external DC/DC converter or a charger IC,an analog input and a comparator for controlling up and down of power,input/output ports for setting various modes.

Also, FIG. 19 is a circuit view showing a wireless power transmissiondevice according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention.Here, it is shown that a member for processing a power signaltransmitted from the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 may beformed with a singly mold.

Referring to the configuration of this mold, a synchronous rectifierchip aids the adjustment of power in a receptor module of thepower-receiving battery system using an induced electromotive force.Therefore, the mold may include a synchronous rectifier for generating aDC voltage from a reception coil to minimize the power loss and the heatgeneration, and a buck-converter used to previously control the outputof the rectifier so as to supply a predetermined voltage to a chargingcircuit. This buck-converter may be switched on at a rate of high-speed2 MHz so as to reduce output ripples of the rectifier and employ a microchip inductor. Also, the output of the buck-converter may be used as aninput of a linear charging circuit, and a built-in linearly chargingfunction allows a battery to be charged with CC/CV. In this case, thebattery is designed to set a charge electric current to a predeterminedcurrent level. This linearly charging function has a fully charged stateport that may feed back a charging state of the battery, and thelinearly charging function may also have a low dropout (LDO) regulatorinstalled thereinside, the LDO regulator having an output voltage of2.85V to supply a power source to a power receiver chip (a wirelessdevice control module) that is IC for controlling external systems.

Also, this synchronous rectifier chip has low heat generation and dropcharacteristics (i.e., 0.4V drop in a rectifier), and has a 2 MHzbuck-converter installed thereinside for the purpose of the highefficiency. Also, the synchronous rectifier chip may be maintained tothe maximum input voltage of about 20V, installed inside the batterypack in the form of a Micor SMD package, and optimized for the wirelesspower transmission within several hundreds of kHz bandwidth. In thiscase, a P-channel field effect transistor (PFET) of the buck-converterhas a low Rdson value of 240 mΩ and the maximum load current of 700 mA,and a LDO regulator with 2.85V@10 mA may be installed inside the PFET.

Next, a power control procedure will be described in more detail in thecharging control step (S05), as follows.

That is to say, a power signal transmitted by the primary charging core13 of the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 is transmitted viathe secondary charging core 32 of the wireless power transmission device30. In this case, the device controller 390 receives information on theinput voltage intensity of the power signal. Then, the device controller390 desirably maintains the voltage of the power signal to a constantvoltage level when the device controller 390 detects that a voltage (forexample, about 5V) of the power signal received in the device controller390 is transmitted as a stable voltage. When the voltage of the powersignal received in the device controller 390 is too low or too high, thewireless power transmission device 30 may be configured to receive aconstant voltage by transmitting information on voltage regulation tothe wireless multi-power transmission device 10 in a load modulationmanner. When the voltage of the power signal is regulated to theconstant voltage, the device controller 390 controls the battery cell 35to be charged with power by converting an operation of the charger IC inthe charger IC block 36 of the wireless power transmission device 30into an active state.

When the battery cell 35 of the wireless power transmission device 30 ischarged with the power transmitted from the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 as described above, the protection circuit moduleblock 37 is configured to stably charge the battery cell 35 withelectric power by checking the stability of the battery cell 35 whilethe battery cell 35 is on charge.

When the wireless power transmission device 30 put on the correspondingcharger block 14 of the wireless multi-power transmission device 10moves around during the charging operation of the wireless multi-chargersystem (A) used as the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 andthe wireless power transmission device 30, positions of the primarycharging core 13 and the secondary charging core 32 are changed, whichleads to the decreased receiving rate of the power signal received fromthe wireless power transmission device 30. As a result, the primarycharging core 13 and the secondary charging core 32 move toinappropriate positions as the wireless power transmission device 30becomes remote from the center toward a horizontal or vertical directionas shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, and therefore an induced electromotive forceis not desirably generated in the wireless power transmission device 30.

Therefore, when the voltage of the power signal, which is received intothe wireless power transmission device 30 put on the correspondingcharger block 14, is less than the reference voltage value, the wirelessmulti-charger system (A) according to the present invention transmits arequest signal for voltage compensation to the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10 so as to supplement the shortage in the voltageof the power signal and transmit the supplemented voltage of the powersignal.

For example, assume that a voltage of the received power signal is setto the reference voltage of 5V, and a reference deviation value is setto a voltage of 0.5V. In this case, when the wireless power transmissiondevice 30 receives a voltage of less than 4.5V due to the movement ofthe wireless power transmission device 30, the device controller 390 ofthe wireless power transmission device controller module 39 controls thesecondary charging core 32 to boost a voltage by about 0.5V and transmitthe boosted voltage. Then, the secondary charging core 32 transmits aboost request signal via the signal processor block 392.

As a result, the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 transmitsthe boosted power signal in response to the 0.5V boost request signal.That is to say, an oscillation frequency may be varied, for example, toboost a transmission power outputted from the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10.

As described above, the power signal transmitted from the wirelessmulti-power transmission device 10 is regulated according to the changesin the position of the wireless power transmission device 30. Thesescharging efficiencies according to the changes in the position are shownin FIGS. 7 to 12.

That is to say, FIGS. 7 to 10 are graphic diagrams showing a primarypower (W) in the wireless multi-power transmission device and asecondary power (W) in the wireless power transmission device, and theirefficiencies (%), all of which are measured by moving the wireless powertransmission device 30 on the corresponding charger block 14 of thewireless multi-power transmission device by −7 mm˜7 mm in a horizontaldirection and a vertical direction, respectively, when it is assumedthat a secondary reference power of the wireless power transmissiondevice is set to a voltage level of about 2.5 W. Here, the efficiency(%) is represented by an efficiency of an output power of the wirelessmulti-power transmission device to a primary input power of the wirelessmulti-power transmission device ((secondary power/primary power)*100),the output power being applied to a secondary side of the wirelessmulti-power transmission device.

Also, it is shown that the compensation of the transmission power isadjusted to a voltage level 0.5 W according to the present invention.Therefore, FIGS. 7 and 8 show graphs that is plotted in a secondarypower of 2˜2.5 W in the case of the wireless power transmission device,which indicates the charging efficiency when the wireless powertransmission device 30 is charged without the compensation of the powersignal according to the changes in frequency in the wireless chargerapparatus 10 relative to the changes in horizontal distances andvertical distances of the wireless multi-power transmission device 10and the wireless power transmission device 30. That is to say, whenwireless power transmission device 30 moves in a horizontal distance ora vertical distance relative to the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10, a secondary power of the wireless power transmission device30 drops as the secondary power goes away from the center of thewireless power transmission device 30, which leads to the decreasingefficiency.

However, for the wireless multi-charger system (A) according to thepresent invention as shown in FIG. 9 (a graph according to the movementof the wireless power transmission device 30 in a horizontal direction)and FIG. 10 (a graph according to the movement of the wireless powertransmission device 30 in a vertical direction) on the contrary to FIGS.7 and 8, information on the changes in the received power voltage istransmitted from the wireless power transmission device as the wirelesspower transmission device 30 moves in a horizontal direction and avertical direction on the top of the charger block 14 of the wirelessmulti-power transmission device 10. As a result, the wirelessmulti-power transmission device 10 shows its efficiency by controlling apower through the changes in frequency. This indicates that the powertransmission is stably performed in the wireless power transmissiondevice 30, and therefore it is revealed that the efficiency in the powertransmission is good.

Also, FIG. 11 shows a graph plotting efficiencies according to themovement of the wireless power transmission device 30 in a horizontaldirection, and FIG. 12 shows a graph plotting efficiencies according tothe movement of the wireless power transmission device 30 in a verticaldirection. Here, it is revealed that the efficiencies are better whenthere is the power compensation according to the change in frequency (anupper rectangular dot graph, POWER CONTROL) than when there is no powercompensation according to the change in frequency (a lower curve graph,FIXED POWER).

Therefore, a power source is stably transmitted in a wireless mannerthrough the wireless power transmission of the wireless multi-chargersystem (A) that is carried out in the wireless multi-power transmissiondevice 10 and the wireless power transmission device 30. Therefore, thewireless multi-power transmission device 10 and the wireless powertransmission device 30 may be stably used in the wireless multi-chargersystem (A).

In particular, the charging method for the power compensation in thecharging control step (S05) of performing the above-mentioned wirelesspower transmission may be used as a better charging method in the caseof the configuration in which a plurality of the charger blocks 14 areprovided in the wireless multi-power transmission device 10 according tothe present invention.

That is to say, various kinds of the wireless power transmission devices30 may be positioned and charged on the wireless charger table 12 in thecase of the configuration in which a plurality of the charger blocks 14is configured on the wireless charger table 12 as shown in FIG. 1.

In this case, portable wireless power transmission devices such asmobile phones, PDA, PMP, DMB terminals, MP3 or notebook computers may beused as the wireless power transmission device 30. While one wirelesspower transmission device is charged on the charger block 14 positionedin one side of the wireless charger table 12, another wireless powertransmission device may be put and charged on the charger block 14positioned in another side of the wireless charger table 12.

Furthermore, when a user touches the wireless power transmission devicethat is being already charged, or shakes the wireless multi-powertransmission device 10, a primary charging core of the correspondingcharger block 14 and a secondary charging core of the wireless powertransmission device that is on charge may be unfortunately changed inposition. Since the wireless power transmission device that is being oncharge is charged with a stable voltage due to the compensation of thecharging power as described above, a corresponding device may continueto be charged without any big troubles until the device is in a fullycharged state.

For the wireless multi-charger system (A) according to the presentinvention, a wireless power transmission device is charged on each ofthe respective charger blocks 14. In this case, small mobile phones maynot only be charged on the respective charger blocks 14, but largewireless power transmission devices that may be charged in a wirelessmanner may also be charged on the respective charger blocks 14.

Therefore, a secondary charging core of the corresponding wireless powertransmission device may be charged in a position corresponding to aprimary charging core of one charger block, but other parts of thewireless power transmission device that are free from the secondarycharging core are put on other charger blocks due to the big size of thewireless power transmission device. In this case, the other chargerblocks are converted into a foreign substance error mode to stop thepower transmission, which may prevent the damage of other part of thewireless power transmission device.

Also, since parts, such as metal lines, of the wireless powertransmission device may be used to perform a wireless chargingoperation, the charger blocks on which the parts are positioned areconverted into a foreign substance error to stop the power transmission.Therefore, the wireless power transmission device and the wirelessmulti-power transmission device may stably perform their chargingoperation according to the power transmission since only the chargerblock on which the secondary charging core of the large wireless powertransmission device is positioned performs its wireless chargingoperation.

In addition, the wireless power transmission device 30 according to thepresent invention includes a shielding member for protecting thewireless power transmission device 30 and the battery cell 35 from themagnetic field that is generated by the primary charging core 13 of thewireless multi-power transmission device 10 and the secondary chargingcore 32 of the wireless power transmission device 30, as shown in FIGS.15 to 19.

First of all, FIG. 13 is an exploded perspective view showing aconfiguration of a wireless power transmission device 30 having awireless power receiver module. Here, a battery pack composed of coil,fine metal, thin aluminum film (foil, etc.), lithium ion or lithiumpolymer has no effect on cells since a thin aluminum film is introducedinto the battery pack to completely cut off the magnetic field, whichallow the cells to be charged/discharged at cell cycles of 500 or more.Here, the shapes of the secondary charging core include all kinds ofcores. That is to say, the shapes of the core may include a rectangularshape, a round shape or an oval shape, and various cores such as awinding coil, a spiral core and the like may be provided herein. In thiscase, the wireless power transmission device 30 having a wireless powerreceiver module includes a wireless power receiver circuit 40 includingmembers such as a power receiver controller 39 and a charger IC block36, both of which are formed in one side of the charging battery cell35, and the wireless power receiver circuit 40 may include a shieldingmember 41 for preventing a surrounding magnetic field.

Also, the wireless power transmission device 30 is provided withshielding plates 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 provided in the bottom, thefront, the rear, the left side and the right side of the chargingbattery cell 35 to protect the battery cell 35 from the magnetic fieldof the primary core block and the secondary core block 32 by shieldingthe magnetic field.

Then, since the five regions, for example, the front, the rear, the leftside, the right side and the bottom of the battery cell 35 are providedrespectively with the shielding plates 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 to cut offthe magnetic field generated by the primary core block and the secondarycore block 32, it is possible to prevent damage of the battery cell 35from the magnetic field. Therefore, an additional shielding plate may beprovided in an upper surface of the battery cell 35, when necessary. Inthis case, it is desirable when temperature is not increased due to thecompletely closed surroundings of the battery cell 35.

As described above, the shielding plates 42, 43, 44, 45 and 46 and theshielding member 41 may be formed of thin discs including Al, Cu, NiAlloy metals.

Also, a magnetic plate 48 is formed between the shielding plates 46 andthe charge receiver module 321 to facilitate the induction of themagnetic field induced from the secondary charging core 32, theshielding plates 46 formed in the bottom of the battery cell 35, and thecharge receiver module 321 including the secondary charging core 32.This magnetic plate 48 includes amorphous ferrites, Mn—Zn (50 parts byweight:50 parts by weight), Ni—Fe (80 parts by weight:20 parts byweight), fine metals (Fe—Si—Cu—Nb), etc.

The magnetic plate 48 may be composed of an upper magnetic plate 481formed between the shielding plates 46 and the charge receiver module321; and a lower magnetic plate 252 disposed in a lower portion of thecharge receiver module 321. Therefore, the lower magnetic plate 482 mayhave a lower plate thorough hole as a thorough hole passed through thecenter thereof. This shape of the lower plate thorough hole 483 ispreferably formed with the same shape as the core of the secondary coreblock 32. For example, FIG. 15 shows that the lower plate thorough hole483 of the lower magnetic plate 482 is formed with a round shape sincethe secondary core block 32 is formed of a round core. However, when thecore is formed with a rectangular shape or a polygonal shape, the lowerplate thorough hole 483 is preferably formed with the same shape.Therefore, an induced electromotive force is easily generated in thesecondary core block 32 due to the presence of the lower plate thoroughhole 483, the secondary core block 32 being that is present within theinduced magnetic field, and the signal may be transmitted/received in aneasy manner.

Also, the magnetic plate 48 is provided with an insulating plate 47 thatis provided between the shielding plates 46 and the battery cell 35 toinsulate the battery cell 35, the shielding plates 46 being formed inthe bottom of the battery cell 35. Since this insulating plate 47 isformed in the form of a mesh or thin film that is made of Ni—Cu, theheat of the shielding plates 46 is not delivered to the battery cell 35.

As another example of the magnetic field shielding member, the magneticplate 48 is provided with a magnetic plate 48 (a primary HPES:HanrimPostech Electro-magnetic shield) formed between an aluminum-basedbattery cell case 35′ and the secondary core block 32 as shown in FIG.16, the aluminum-based battery cell case 35′ constituting an outer bodyof the battery cell 35. In this case, a shield mesh member 49 is furtherprovided as a secondary HPES between the magnetic plate 48 (i.e., aprimary HPES) and the battery cell case 35′. The magnetic plate 48 as aprimary HPES and the shield mesh member 49 as a secondary HPES may becomposed of the same components as in the above-mentioned shieldingmember.

It is known that most of the magnetic field is shielded by the magneticplate 48 that is a primary HPES. As shown in FIG. 16, it is revealedthat a line of magnetic force does not affect a battery cell since theline of magnetic force is bent by the magnetic plate 48 that is ashielding plate. As a result, the heat is generated in a peak region bythe line of magnetic force, and then radiated out by the metallicmagnetic plate 48. In addition, the shield mesh member 49 as a secondaryHPES is formed by coating a metal mesh with a coating agent selectedfrom the group consisting of amorphous ferrites, Mn—Zn (50 parts byweight:50 parts by weight), Ni—Fe (80 parts by weight:20 parts byweight), or fine metals (Fe—Si—Cu—Nb). Therefore, the secondary HPESfunctions to shield the magnetic field that is not shielded by themagnetic plate 48 that is a primary HPES. An eddy current is formed byexcessive line of magnetic force in the metal mesh of the shield meshmember 49 that is a secondary HPES. In this case, the battery packshould be affected by the magnetic field that is generated by theprimary core block and the secondary core block due to the presence ofthe eddy current formed in the metal mesh. In this experiment, it isrevealed that about 90% of the magnetic field is shielded by themagnetic plate 48 that is a primary HPES, and about 10% of the magneticfield is shielded by the shield mesh member 49 that is a secondary HPES.

The wireless power transmission device 30 including the magnetic plate48 as a primary HPES and the shield mesh member 49 as a secondary HPESis used to repeat a charging experiment (500 cycles) for the chargingefficiency. Here, a battery is not coupled to a charging device inwireless manner, but the battery is coupled to the charging devicethrough wires to perform a charging/discharging experiment, as shown inFIG. 17. Accordingly, FIG. 17 shows a graph that is plotted using an 80%efficiency curve as the reference curve (hereinafter, referred to as“standard efficiency line segment” (D)), the 80% efficiency curve beingobtained through the repeated charging/discharging of a battery pack at500 cycles and referred to as a stable charging efficiency. First, whenthe wireless power transmission device 30 is generally charged throughelectrical contacts without the exposure to the magnetic field (a graphrepresented by “N” in FIG. 17), the experiment of the wireless powertransmission device 30 is carried out so that the charging capacitiescan be plotted over the standard efficiency line segment, whichindicates that the charging/discharging efficiency is stable in thebattery pack.

Accordingly, for the wireless power transmission device 30 according tothe present invention, it is shown that the charging/dischargingefficiency by the magnetic plate 48 as a primary HPES and the shieldmesh member 49 as a secondary HPES (a graph represented by “A” in FIG.17) is stable with an efficiency of 83.9% on the basis of 500-cyclecharging/discharging experiment.

However, when the secondary HPES is not used in the wireless powertransmission device 30, it is shown that the charging/dischargingefficiency (a graph represented by “B” in FIG. 17) is rather low with anefficiency of 75.3% on the basis of 460-cycle charging/dischargingexperiment. When the primary HPES and the secondary HPES are not used inthe wireless power transmission device 30, it is shown that thecharging/discharging efficiency (a graph represented by “C” in FIG. 17)is very low with an efficiency of 74.5% in the charging/dischargingexperiment at 340 cycles that are far away below the 500 cycles.However, it is revealed that the wireless power transmission device 30according to the present invention shows a highly excellentcharging/discharging efficiency.

The description proposed herein is just an exemplary embodiment for thepurpose of illustrations only, not intended to limit the scope of theinvention, so it should be understood that other equivalents andmodifications could be made thereto without departing from the spiritand scope of the invention as apparent to those skilled in the art.Therefore, it should be understood that the present invention might benot defined within the scope of which is described in detaileddescription but within the scope of which is defined in the claims andtheir equivalents.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A wireless multi-charger system comprisinga wireless multi-power transmission device for transmitting a powersignal to a wireless power transmission device in a wireless manner,wherein the wireless multi-power transmission device include a wirelesscharger case formed as an external body, the wireless charger casehaving a full-bridge resonant converter and a central controller mountedthereinside to transmit a power signal to the wireless powertransmission device in a wireless manner, wherein the wireless chargercase has a wireless charger table formed in an upper surface thereof,wherein the wireless charger table has a plurality of charger blocks,each of which includes a primary charging core, wherein the full-bridgeresonant converter is present in a plural form and coupled respectivelyto a plurality of the charger blocks, wherein a multi-gate driver moduleis provided to transmit a converted power signal to each of a pluralityof the full-bridge resonant converters under the control of the centralcontroller, wherein a reception signal processor module coupled to aplurality of the charger blocks to process a signal transmitted from thewireless power transmission device and supply the processed signal tothe central controller is provided, and wherein the central controllercomprises: a power supply block coupled to the power supply unit tosupply a power source of the wireless multi-power transmission device; asignal output block for outputting a display signal into an LCD paneland a charging LED; a gate output signal processor block coupled to themulti-gate driver module to transmit a power signal transmitted from theprimary charging core; a received signal processor block coupled to oneside of the primary charging core for processing a signal transmittedfrom the reception signal processor module for processing a signaltransmitted from the wireless power transmission device; and a maincontroller for controlling the power supply block, the signal outputblock, the gate output signal processor block and the received signalprocessor block.
 2. The wireless multi-charger system according to claim1, wherein the central controller controls the request for datainformation on charging capacity to the wireless power transmissiondevice, receives data of the information on charging capacity and dataof the power signal voltage transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device to determine voltage data of the transmitted powersignal, performs an arithmetic operation on the frequency of the powersignal to compensate for a transmitted power relative to the voltagedata of the power signal of the determined wireless power transmissiondevice, and controls the transmission of the power signal as thecompensated frequency to transmit a compensated power signal to thewireless power transmission device.
 3. A method for controlling awireless multi-charger system as defined in claim 1, comprising:transmitting a power signal via the primary charging core from wirelessmulti-power transmission device of the wireless multi-charger system inevery cycle, the power signal including a call signal for calling anative ID value of the wireless power transmission device, and waitingfor the receipt of a response signal for the power signal; determiningthe presence of an object by checking a detected detection signalaccording to load modulation in the primary charging core of one of thecharger blocks and determining whether the detected detection signal isa normal signal; determining whether a native ID signal of the wirelesspower transmission device is received by analyzing the detectedreception signal; transmitting a fully charged transmission power fromthe primary charging core of the corresponding charger block via themulti-gate driver module when the received native ID signal isdetermined to be a native ID transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device; requesting information on the charging state to thewireless power transmission device and adjusting a charging levelaccording to the charging information of the wireless power transmissiondevice; displaying a fully charged state in the LCD panel or thecharging LED corresponding to the corresponding charger block andstopping a charging operation when the information on the fully chargedstate is received from the wireless power transmission device.
 4. Themethod for controlling the wireless multi-charger system according toclaim 3, wherein the object detection step comprises: converting aplurality of the charger blocks into a foreign substance detection modewhen a detection signal detected through the corresponding primarycharging core and the reception signal processor module according to theload modulation generated by objects is not a normal signal, displays aforeign substance error in the LCD panel or the charging LED when thedetected foreign substance is a metal or electronic equipment, and stopsa charging operation on the corresponding charger block.
 5. The methodfor controlling the wireless multi-charger system according to claim 3,wherein the charging control step comprises: requesting data informationon the charging capacity to the wireless power transmission device;receiving data information on the charging capacity and the voltage dataof the power signal transmitted from the wireless power transmissiondevice; determining the voltage data of the power signal transmittedfrom the wireless power transmission device; performing an arithmeticoperation on a frequency of the power signal to compensate for thetransmitted power for the voltage data of the power signal transmittedfrom the wireless power transmission device; transmitting a power signalas a compensated frequency to transmit a compensated power signal to thewireless power transmission device.
 6. A method for controlling thewireless multi-charger system as defined in claim 2, comprising:transmitting a power signal via the primary charging core from thewireless multi-power transmission device of the wireless multi-chargersystem in every cycle, the power signal including a call signal forcalling a native ID value of the wireless power transmission device, andwaiting for the receipt of a response signal for the power signal;determining the presence of an object by checking a detected detectionsignal according to load modulation in the primary charging core of oneof the charger blocks and determining whether the detected detectionsignal is a normal signal; determining whether a native ID signal of thewireless power transmission device is received by analyzing the detectedreception signal; transmitting a fully charged transmission power fromthe primary charging core of the corresponding charger block via themulti-gate driver module when the received native ID signal isdetermined to be a native ID transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device; requesting information on the charging state to thewireless power transmission device and adjusting a charging levelaccording to the charging information of the wireless power transmissiondevice; displaying a fully charged state in an LCD panel or a chargingLED corresponding to the corresponding charger block and stopping acharging operation when the information on the fully charged state isreceived from the wireless power transmission device.
 7. The wirelessmulti-charger system according to claim 1, wherein the LCD panel isconfigured to display a total charging state of the plurality of thecharger blocks, and the charging LED is configured to display a chargingstate of each of the plurality of the charger blocks.
 8. A wirelessmulti-charger system comprising a wireless multi-power transmissiondevice for transmitting a power signal to a wireless power transmissiondevice in a wireless manner, wherein the wireless multi-powertransmission device include a wireless charger case formed as anexternal body, the wireless charger case having a full-bridge resonantconverter and a central controller mounted thereinside to transmit apower signal to the wireless power transmission device in a wirelessmanner, wherein the wireless charger case has a wireless charger tableformed in an upper surface thereof, wherein the wireless charger tablehas a plurality of charger blocks, each of which includes a primarycharging core, wherein the full-bridge resonant converter is present ina plural form and coupled respectively to a plurality of the chargerblocks, wherein a multi-gate driver module is provided to transmit aconverted power signal to each of a plurality of the full-bridgeresonant converters under the control of the central controller, whereina reception signal processor module coupled to a plurality of thecharger blocks to process a signal transmitted from the wireless powertransmission device and supply the processed signal to the centralcontroller is provided, and wherein the wireless power transmissiondevice comprises: a secondary charging core for transmitting an inducedelectric current from the magnetic field to correspond to the primarycharging core of the wireless multi-power transmission device; arectifier block coupled to the secondary charging core to rectify theinduced electric current; a smoothing filter block coupled to therectifier block to filter an electric current; a charger IC blockcoupled to the smoothing filter block to charge a power source in thebattery cell; a protection circuit module block provided between thecharger IC block and the battery cell to detect an electric currentcharged in the battery cell and transmit information on a charging stateof the battery cell to the power receiver controller; a positive-voltageregulator block provided to supply a power source to the power receivercontroller; and a power receiver controller for controlling therectifier block, the smoothing filter block, the charger IC block, theprotection circuit module block and the positive-voltage regulatorblock.
 9. The wireless multi-charger system according to claim 8,wherein the power receiver controller comprises: a power signalprocessor block coupled to the smoothing filter block to process atransmission signal for the data information on the power signalreceived from the wireless power transmission device; a charge signalprocessor block coupled to the charger IC block and the protectioncircuit module block to process a transmission signal for the datainformation on the charging capacity and charging state of the batterycell; a signal processor block for processing information on thecharging capacity and data information on the native ID that aretransmitted to the wireless multi-power transmission device under thecontrol of the device controller; a device memory unit for storing datainformation on the native ID, temporally storing the data information ofthe charging capacity and the charging state transmitted from theprotection circuit module block and the charger IC block and storing thedata transmitted from the wireless multi-power transmission device; anda device controller.
 10. The wireless multi-charger system according toclaim 9, wherein the main controller of the wireless multi-powertransmission device controls the transmission of a native code signalfor the respective charger blocks in addition to the charge power signalto the charger blocks that are on charge, wherein the device controlleranalyzes the native code signal for the corresponding charger blocktransmitted from the wireless multi-power transmission device, andwherein the device memory unit stores a data value of the native codesignal for the corresponding charger block transmitted from the devicecontroller.
 11. The wireless multi-charger system according to claim 9,wherein the device controller controls transmission of a data value tothe wireless multi-power transmission device, the data value including avoltage value of the power signal received for the received requestsignal from the wireless multi-power transmission device.
 12. A wirelessmulti-power transmission device for detecting a foreign substance, thewireless multi-power transmission device comprising: a plurality ofcharger blocks each of which includes a primary charging core forgenerating a magnetic field to perform a wireless charging operation;and a main controller to: initiate a standby mode at the plurality ofcharger blocks, wherein during the standby mode a power signal is to betransmitted via the primary charging core of each charger block of theplurality of charger blocks; and convert a first charger block on whicha secondary charging core of a wireless device is detected into a chargemode and convert a second charger block on which no secondary chargingcore of the wireless device is detected into a foreign substancedetection mode in response to detecting a presence of the wirelessdevice at both the first charger block and the second charger block. 13.The wireless multi-power transmission device in accordance with claim12, wherein the main controller is to stop an operation of the secondcharger block during the foreign substance detection mode.
 14. Thewireless multi-power transmission device in accordance with claim 13,further comprising: a reception signal processor module coupled to theplurality of charger blocks to detect a detection signal receivedthrough the primary charging core, wherein the main controller is todetect a foreign substance if the detection signal is not a normalsignal.
 15. The wireless multi-power transmission device in accordancewith claim 14, wherein the reception signal processor module is todetect the detection signal according to a load modulation.
 16. Thewireless multi-power transmission device in accordance with claim 12,wherein other charger blocks on which a secondary charging core of otherwireless device is positioned perform the wireless charging operation.17. The wireless multi-power transmission device in accordance withclaim 12, further comprising: an LCD panel to display a foreignsubstance error in the second charger block.
 18. The wirelessmulti-power transmission device in accordance with claim 13, wherein thesecond charger block is to be converted into a standby mode in responseto detecting a removal of the device from the second charger block andan input of a re-start signal into the second charger block.
 19. Amethod for detecting a foreign substance by a wireless multi-powertransmission device, the method comprising: generating a magnetic fieldto perform a wireless charging operation at a plurality of chargerblocks, each of which includes a primary charging core; initiating astandby mode at the plurality of charger blocks, wherein during thestandby mode a power signal is to be transmitted via the primarycharging core of each charger block of the plurality of charger blocks;and converting a first charger block on which a secondary charging coreof a wireless device is detected into a charge mode and converting asecond charger block on which no secondary charging core of the wirelessdevice is detected into a foreign substance detection mode in responseto detecting a presence of the wireless device at both the first chargerblock and the second charger block.
 20. The method in accordance withclaim 19, further comprising: stopping an operation of the secondcharger block during the foreign substance detection mode.
 21. Themethod in accordance with claim 20, further comprising: detecting adetection signal received through the primary charging core, wherein aforeign substance is detected if the detection signal is not a normalsignal.
 22. The method in accordance with claim 21, wherein thedetection signal is detected according to a load modulation.
 23. Themethod in accordance with claim 19, wherein the wireless chargingoperation is performed at other charger blocks on which a secondarycharging core of other wireless device is positioned.
 24. The method inaccordance with claim 19, further comprising: displaying a foreignsubstance error in the second charger block.
 25. The method inaccordance with claim 20, wherein when the operation of the secondcharger block is stopped, the second charger block is in a standby modeuntil a restart signal is input into the second charger block.